Muscat: More than 100,000 jobs are to be stripped from expatriates and given to Omanis as the government works to redress the imbalance in the Sultanate’s employment market. Minister of Manpower Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser Al Bakri on Monday affirmed…
Dhaka –Police arrested two directors and a manager of Dhaka Regency Hotel and Resort from the capital’s Khilkhet area on Tuesday evening following a case filed over cheating, murder attempt and money embezzlement.
Dhaka – Voicing deep concern over the continued ‘impunity’ to perpetrators of violence against indigenous women in the CHT region, the International Chittagong Hill Tracts Commission has urged the government to take effective measures to put an end to the…
Madaripur –A leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Sarbahara Party was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Shibchar upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Kiron Bepari, 29, son of Abu Bepari of Goalanda upazila of Rajbari district.
Khaleda Zia has welcomed new members into the BNP before calling on them to stand up together against ‘abduction, murder and torture’ by the government. Lakshmipur Jatiya Party Secretary General Mahmudur Rahman along with some 50 members joined the BNP…
A delegation of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has visited the Election Commission to lodge the complaint that it is not playing its appropriate role in the Upazila elections. Although the election is being held on a non-party basis, BNP-backed…
By Ella Davies Farmland butterflies have flourished thanks to last year’s hot summer, the charity Butterfly Conservation says. The annual Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) recorded almost double the number of insects compared with the previous year. Long, sunny periods…
By James Gallagher The brain of one monkey has been used to control the movements of another, “avatar”, monkey, US scientists report. Brain scans read the master monkey’s mind and were used to electrically stimulate the avatar’s spinal cord, resulting…
The government in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu has decided to free three men and a woman convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court commuted the death sentences of…
Ballroom dancers and aerobics classes have popped up in the midst of an anti-China protest in Hanoi, Vietnam, in an apparent ploy by the government to break up the event. Protesters say the dancers, who showed up with a loud…
Dhaka – The government is planning to increase the gas and power prices, said State Minister for Power Nasrul Hamid here on Tuesday. Nasrul Hamid came up with the government plan while addressing a conference of diploma engineers of the…
Dhaka – Rain-fed Aus should be reintroduced in the country’s northern region, where great stretches of land have turned fallow due to the depletion in levels of groundwater, observed officials on Tuesday. They also noted that the related research institutes…
Dhaka – BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia visited ailing Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh (BDB) President Prof AQM Badruddoza Chowdhury on Tuesday night. BDB secretary general Major (retd) Abdul Mannan and joint secretary general Mahi B Chowdhury received Khaleda as she reached B…
Law Minister Anisul Haq on Tuesday said the government favours dialogue with the political parties to boost the democratic process . The possibility of a dialogue will increase after the on-going upazila polls, the minister told the Canadian High Commissioner…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday recorded the depositions of an elder brother of slain Jahangirnagar University student Zubair Ahmed in the case filed in connection with the murder. Abdullah Al Mamun brother of the victim testified before the Fourth Speedy…
The founder of a television station for Britain’s Bangladeshi community has been jailed for three years over a crash-for-cash insurance scam. Mohammed Ferdhaus, 40, admitted to laundering half a million pounds from a scam operated by his brother, Mohammed Samsul…
A Dhaka court on Tuesday accepted charge sheets against eight persons and took cognizance of the charges against the accused, including Mufit M Jasimuddin Rahmani, Chief of Islamist outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team, in the blogger Ahmed Rajib Haider murder case.
The Anti Corruption Commission on Tuesday quizzed Soumendra Lal Chandra Shoilen, former assistant personal secretary of ex-state minister for religious affairs Advocate M Shahjahan Miah on charge of accumulation of illegal wealth and laundering money to India, says an ACC…
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has withdrawn a stay on a defamation case against former army chief Gen Moeen U Ahmed.A full bench headed by Chief Justice Md Muzammel Hossain issued the order on Tuesday after hearing an…
Dhaka – Awami League publicity and publication secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud on Tuesday alleged that BNP-Jamaat alliance is trying to create anarchy in the country by joining hands with al-Qaeda. “The BNP-Jamaat alliance has long been enforcing militant programmes. We…
“Opposition activists are being abducted and killed in Lakshmipur and elsewhere. They are being arrested in false cases,” acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said at a rally on Tuesday. The meet was held at the National Press Club…
Chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Dr Mizanur Rahman on Tuesday said the law enforcers crossed their limit by making attacks on a recent peaceful rally of Rajshahi University students. “Members of the law enforcement agencies crossed their…
Dhaka – Stressing the upazila polls’ local essence, party’s Publicity and Publications Secretary Dr Hasan Mahmud said on Tuesday evening that important as they are, “there is no scope for drawing conclusions regarding a party’s popularity at the national level…
A total of 97 upazilas in 40 districts are going to polls on Wednesday in the first of the staggered local body elections. The voting will open at 8am and continue till 4pm without any break. The Election Commission has…
Dhaka – Members of elite force Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detained a youth from Tangail on charge of spreading so-called audiovisual message of al-Qaeda head Ayman al-Zawahiri on the internet. Director (media and legal wing) at the Rab headquarters Wing…
Three people have been killed and dozens injured in violence that erupted as Thai police began clearing protest sites in the capital, Bangkok.
Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf has appeared in a Pakistani court for the first time on treason charges.
India’s Supreme Court has commuted the death sentences of three men convicted of plotting the 1991 assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
A Florida artist is facing criminal charges after deliberately dropping a vase by dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in an apparent protest.
China’s central bank has removed nearly $8bn (£4.7bn) from the money markets in a bid to control the amount of credit in the country’s financial system.